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The Jewish Moral Virtues
A book of ethical wisdom applied to contemporary life.
This book, by Eugene B. Borowitz and Frances Weinman Schwartz, is about philosophical meditations on ethics of contemporary life, and is structured on the twenty-four virtues of Yehiel ben…
This book, by Eugene B. Borowitz and Frances Weinman Schwartz, is about philosophical meditations on ethics of contemporary life, and is structured on the twenty-four virtues of Yehiel ben…
Subversive Virtue: Asceticism and Authority in the second-century pagan world
"Much attention has been devoted in recent years to Christian asceticism in Late Antiquity. But Christianity did not introduce asceticism to the ancient world. An underlying theme of this fascinating study of pagan asceticism is that much of the work…
Maat, the moral ideal in ancient Egypt: a study in classical African ethics
This work is a critical examination of Maat, the moral ideal in ancient Egypt. It seeks to present Maat in the language of modern moral discourse while at the same time preserving and building on its distinctiveness as a moral ideal capable of…
